It's the season of Yuletide once again, a time of darkness and dreary weather, but also a time of partying inside every home. The harvest is gathered in, and the folk are mostly lounging around eating and staying warm and doing indoor tasks until it's time to get ready to head to the fields again.
Seeing as how Yule is a very Germanic holiday, and one of the Germanic cultures still around these days is the English, I decided to go for something in more of a style of an English winter-season carol or wassailing song. Think of this as aiming more for fairly-amateur performers showing up at your front door demanding food, money, or booze in exchange for entertainment than anything else. As such, the melody is kept within a fairly small range, in a not-too-terribly-difficult key, and with a lot of scale motions rather than jumping all over the place. Harmonically, this moves rapidly, because the goal is to harmonize nicely with each melody note rather than allow tension but also confusion from having the melodic note not quite match the harmonies.
All works are copyright by yours truly, but may be distributed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 4.0. That means, in short, you can use them yourself and your grove, and play the song to your heart's content both in private and in public, but must give credit where credit is due, and if you're planning on selling something involving this song we need to talk about that first.
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